Hi jgart, IMO, having everything in one repo, while going against the "modularity" philosophy, really helps a lot when updating packages. In my experience with the Other Channel That We Should Not Talk About, there often are breaking changes in the main repository that lead to the other channel being broken for a couple of days. It would take way longer for changes to propagate things to the "leaf" channels.
Also, you can't reasonably expect programs to be categorized that well (although I'm pretty sure there could be consensus on non-PITA vs. PITA-packages with the usual suspects :) ). I don't think there is a way to reconcile the "complete system distribution" and "completely modular distribution" viewpoints, at least at that level. The channels approach that exists for now is a nice pragmatic solution that still allows quite a lot of freedom. Best, -- Josselin Poiret
